Business and Finance Quote Book

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. Michael Korda

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. Henry R. Luce

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. Evan Esar

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. Charles Kettering

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H. Glasow

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. J. Paul Getty

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. Will Rogers

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Harold S. Geneen

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas A. Edison